I do not own Total Drama. You'd think that the copyright gods would have listened the first nine times...
Noah had never skipped out on a class before. But he was too upset to go back. Too upset to go back and face his best friend and crush. Noah knew it was illogical to blame Cody, as the brunette simply panicked when faced with Courtney. At least, that's what Noah heard Trent say before Noah stormed out. Noah wanted to go back. He wanted to forgive Cody, but what was left of his pride wouldn't let him. So he kept moving, ignoring Izzy and Eva call out to him. He went into the boys restroom to be alone, so he believed Izzy and Eva couldn't follow him. Boy did they love to prove him wrong.
"Noah! Come back!" Izzy said, as the two entered the restroom startling Noah.
"What are you two doing in here?! This is the boy's restroom!" Noah protested, trying to replace his sadness with anger,
"We can read, shrimp. Now come on back to class. Don't make me drag you back." Eva threatened.
"No, I want to be left alone." Noah said.
"But that's boring! You're not supposed to be boring! You're a member of Team E-Scope!" Izzy said.
"Izzy, please. Cody wasn't suppose to tell anyone else. He went, like what, two hours, before he told Gwen and Trent." Noah said, looking down to avoid eye contact.
"Well, sure, But hey, it got you tell him that you loved him!" Izzy said, refusing to be negative.
"That's not how it was suppose to go." Noah said, sadly.
"For a genius, you're an idiot sometimes." Eva said, earning a look from Noah and Izzy.
"What are you talking about?" Noah asked, confused at her insult.
"Cody's a wimp. He can't face a threat, not even one from someone like Courtney. So he sought help. From the first person who befriended him when he moved here and the goth he's crushing on. So get over it." Eva said, crossing her arms. Noah was about to say something when she continued. "Plus do you think Courtney's threat will have any water with all the allies you have?"
Noah had to admit that Eva made a lot of sense. Even Izzy seemed impressed. During the years Noah had known Cody, he noticed that Cody never did respond to threats well. Whereas Noah would just brush it off, Cody would do somewhat irrational things. A couple years ago, when Duncan had threatened to beat Cody up if he didn't give him some money, Cody had avoided everyone for a week, not leaving his house or telling his friends where he was.
However, before Noah could say anything again, a person walked into the restroom and was surprised at the people in it. He had long dark hair and seemed to be Latino. "Oh, sorry. Am I interrupting anything?"
"Who are you?" Izzy asked, going around him, observing him. "I'm Izzy, and I've never seen you before."
"My name is Alejandro. I just enrolled here. Nice to meet you, senorita." Alejandro said, putting on a charming act that Noah, Eva and Izzy could seen through immediately.
"Hey, I'm not old, Izzy is sixteen," Izzy said, not understanding the language he was speaking.
"No, it means lady, I assure you." Alejandro said, doing a bow to show respect. Eva and Noah just rolled their eyes.
"Then why didn't you say that in the first place? Way to confuse Izzy." Izzy said, crossing her arms. Alejandro was confused as to why she was talking in a third person.
"So, may I ask why you lovely ladies are in the boy's restroom?"
Eva scoffed at that. "We're here so we can drag our wimpy friend back to class."
"Eva, I'm right here." Noah said, crossing his arms.
"So, we'll be on our way, let's go Team E-Scope." Izzy said and she and Eva grabbed each of Noah's hands and carried him out of the restroom, not giving time for Alejandro time to question their team name.
They made it halfway back to gym class when they ran into Heather, who was a bit angry. "There you losers are. That dumb, psycho chef is substituting gym class and he sent me to find you losers, so come on!"
"Let's go, Izzy, wouldn't want to keep her royal bitchiness waiting." Eva said, causing Heather to glare at her.
"That was clever. Did you get that one from that weird goth girl, Gwen?" Heather said, crossing her arms.
"Hey, Izzy, Eva? Can you let me go? I'll follow you guys on my own." Noah said trying to struggle out of their grasp.
"Who is this beautiful senorita?" Alejandro said from behind them, toward Heather. They all focused on him, with Noah and Eva rolling their eyes and Heather blushing slightly and narrowing her eyes at him.
"I am Heather, the most popular girl here. You should make it in your best interest to know and respect me."
"Greetings, miss Heather. I am Alejandro." Alejandro said, taking Heather's hand and kissing it. She blushed again before taking her hand back and walking back to gym class. "So, looks like you guys are heading to the gym, right? This is also my next class."
Noah sighed as Alejandro followed the into the gym. Inside, Chef Hatchet, who was indeed substituting, glared angrily at them, before instructing them to have a seat. Alejandro sat near Heather, who attempted to look irritated, but Noah knew that she instantly liked the new guy. Cody looked like he was still upset and Trent and Gwen were still trying to comfort him. Owen and Zeke were trying as well, but they got up to greet Izzy and Eva respectively. Lindsay and Beth were sitting on the row above Team E-Scope. Lindsay was fiddling with her hair, not paying attention to anyone and Beth was watching Justin along with Katie and Sadie. That Multiple Personality kid was now shirtless and flirting with some girl who was constantly spraying her hair while the redhead Zoey looked sad at the scene.
Noah was forcibly sat between Izzy and Cody, who looked away from Noah, with tears in his eyes. Noah was still mad at Cody for telling others, but his heart still ached for the tech geek. But before Noah could say anything to Cody, Chef Hatchet spoke loudly. "Okay, maggots! Since your regular coach is out, I'll be watching you. So you may have do whatever, but you'll be punished severally if anyone of you try to leave again." He directed that at Team E-Scope and Heather. With that, everyone got up to do their own thing, except Team E-Scope and Gwen and Trent.
"Okay, so I'm going to pelt Heather with dodge balls. Come on Zeke, you're my distraction." Eva said, grabbing Zeke and taking him with her.
"Noah! Cody! You two are going to talk out your problems!" Izzy said, with Gwen nodding in agreement.
"Izzy's kind of crazy at times, but she makes sense. I can't comfort you all day, so Trent and I are going to walk over there and talk about tonight." Gwen said, leaving with Trent. Cody continued to avoid Noah's gaze, still feeling guilty. Lindsay happened to be walking by with her boyfriend, Tyler when she saw them sad.
"Cory, Nora, are you two okay? You seem sad." Lindsay asked. Noah rolled his eyes at her obviousness.
"Come on, guys. We've got to leave my Little Buddy and Cody alone to repair their friendship." Owen said, taking Izzy, Lindsay and Tyler away.
"Okay, Oscar and Irene. Ooh, let's play dodge ball with Haley and Eve. Can we, Taylor?" Lindsay asked. Noah was amazed that she can be that forgetful, though she did get part of Eva's name right. Noah watched Owen, Izzy, Lindsay and Tyler walked off to join Eva, who was ruthlessly throwing dodge balls at Heather and Alejandro, who was trying to protect her.
"So..." Noah started, not knowing what he could say to Cody.
"I'm sorry! Please forgive me, Noah!" Cody suddenly said, grabbing the bookworm into a hug. "I was scared of Courtney! So I turned to Trent and Gwen! I'm so sorry!"
"Cody..." Noah said, lightly pushing the tech geek off of him. "I'm sorry too. I should of realized that you would act that way when threatened. I should have realized that Courtney would threaten you. She can be a real bitch sometimes." This made Cody smile softly through his tears. "But..." Noah started, which made Cody's smile fall. "But I still need to time to trust you again. So I'll continue to hang out with you, but don't expect me to one hundred percent trust you yet." Even as Noah said this, his heart fell. He wanted to hug Cody again. He wanted to kiss Cody, but a voice in his head told him not to so he could keep his pride. Just then, Courtney arrived, followed by Duncan and Justin, who was in turn, being ogled by Beth, Katie and Sadie.
"Well, well, if it isn't the lovebirds." Duncan said, causing Cody to get up and go elsewhere, crying.
"Well, well, if it isn't a neanderthal, his boyfriend and his lousy excuse for a princess." Noah countered, offending the three. Duncan grabbed Noah by the collar of his shirt and brought his fist back to punch him.
"Duncan, down." Courtney ordered. "My boyfriend beating up my opponent won't help me and he knows that."
"Hey, eye candy, you better be careful, or else your mind slaves will drool all over your princess." Noah said, noticing Beth, Katie and Sadie.
"Ladies, maybe give us some private time?" Justin asked. The three girls then sadly went to watch the dodge ball game going on with Alejandro, Heather, Lindsay and Tyler on one team and Eva, Owen, Izzy and Zeke on the other.
"So, Noah. I hear you plan to drop out?" Courtney asked.
"You're a pathetic piece of work, you know that, right? You use your eye candy to get people to follow you and use your neanderthal to beat up those you aren't affected by your tactics." Noah said, getting really irritated with Courtney.
"You're just jealous you aren't popular like me!" Courtney said.
"Cause that's so important to me." Noah said, rolling his eyes and standing to face her. "And I don't much appreciate you threatening my friends with vague plans about me. So I'm going to continue this Student Council race. And I'm going to win. And if you're so insecure about yourself, then go ahead and tell everyone that I like guys. And I bet you that barely anybody here would care. Because without your neanderthal boyfriend and eye candy, you're nothing." With that, Noah walked away from Courtney, Duncan and Justin and sat on the other side of the gym. He smirked when he saw the look on Courtney's face.
"You've got to admit, the queer really did burn you." Duncan said, earning a slap from Courtney.
"Just shut up Duncan!" She said, then turned to where Noah was, "This isn't over, Noah!" Everyone in the gym just ignored her as she demanded Chef Hatchet to be excused from class. He angrily told her her to sit down and shut up.
Soon after though, Noah remembered Cody and scanned the gym, searching for the boy. Before he could find Cody, a dodge ball came flying and hit Noah in the head, knocking him to the ground. He looked up, angry, and saw Owen come up to him.
"Sorry, Little Buddy. Are you okay?" Owen asked, helping Noah up.
"Yeah, just peachy. I wasn't using my head anyway." Noah said. "Have you seen Cody?"
"Yeah, I think Chef let him go to the restroom. But he hasn't come back yet." Owen said, taking the ball and returning to the game.
Noah asked Chef Hatchet if he could look for Cody, since he's been gone awhile. Chef simply nodded, obviously not liking the fact of dealing with students. Noah exited the gym and went toward the restroom. He entered and heard slight crying sounds behind one of the stalls. Noah went over to it and knocked.
"Cody? Are you in there?" Noah asked, knocking again.
"N-Noah? Is t-that you?" Cody asked.
"Yeah, listen, can you come out? I need to talk to you." Cody slowly opened up the stall door. "Look, I want to apologize. I shouldn't have acted that way. And I shouldn't have said that I don't trust you. And can you come out of there, because you've got to stop beating yourself up. You've made a mistake. I got over it."
"But...how?" Cody asked.
"I took my anger out on Courtney. I told her off. It was really satisfying." Noah said, smirking. Cody grinned softly. "So what do you say? Can we be friends again? I kind of want to kick your butt at video games after school."
Cody then grabbed Noah into a hug, whispering thank yous. As they walked out of the restroom, a girl down the end of the hallway suddenly shouted at them. "CODY!" The boys turned around and saw a dark-skinned girl about their age, with purple hair. Noah saw Cody's eyes widen in horror.
"Sierra?! What are you doing here?!" Noah recognized the name from Cody's nightmares whenever Cody spent the night with Noah and vice versa. The girl reached them and pushed Noah aside to smother Cody in a hug.
"I just moved here after I found out where you were! Now we can be together forever, Codykins!" Sierra said, rivaling Izzy's amount of energy.
"N-Noah, help me..." Cody struggled to say.
"Sorry, Codester. I'm not strong enough." Noah said, hoping this girl doesn't find out that Noah is in love with Cody, as he believed this girl could kill him. "Anyway, Stalker girl, Cody and I have to get to gym class. So let him go."
"Gym class?! Fate wants us to be together! When I officially start school tomorrow, I have gym around this time!" Sierra exclaimed as when went toward the gym while still holding onto Cody. Noah sighed, getting angry again and followed them into the gym.
Sierra and Alejandro. How wonderful. I didn't like them until the end of World Tour, when Cody told her that they should remain friends and when Alejandro was willing to throw away a million dollars for love, even if it was Heather. Don't worry, Alejandro won't be as meddling, since there's no money up from grabs. But Sierra will definitely be a problem. Well, at least Noah and Cody were able to patch some things up. Thanks in part to Eva.
And NoCo will be happening soon, not to worry. This will be the last chapter dealing with this day's events.